How pleasant are your Tents Jacob מה טובו אהליך יעקב A Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on this we're going to be learning a beautiful hasidic discourse in the rebbe the name of the hasidic discourse is called how good and wonderful is the tense of jacob the rebber said this qasidic discourse and shabbat is pasha's baloch that year was the seventh day in the month of tammuz in the year tough shin mem dallied 38 years ago so again the clinic discourse is based on the verse in the torah portion where we have the beautiful blessing of yaakov how great and how good are the tents of jacob mishkin the dwelling places of the israel of the jewish people ever said it's known the acidic discourse on this verse from the torah from the altar on pasha's baloch which is called the hasidic torah portion at the end of the the torah portion together with the notes and the footnotes from the aldera's grandson to some of sadek also besides the footnotes that someone said the castle on the altar which is the classical works of this from the son of zedek which is uh printed with a lot of notes and and short versions and explanations for this specific discourse which add the new and great ideas and like jerry quotes the verse that says a terrorist scheming the beauty of grandparents is grandchildren and as we know that some of said that was the ultimate grandson and especially it wasn't just a grandson but he was the altima's daughter's son and we know the famous story that the tzamer telek who again was the enter out of his grandson from from uh through his mother not to his father so it's brought down that when they wanted very very much and they were demanding and they ultimately accomplished by the sum of zedek they should accept leadership and they said to him you are the preferred grandson of the altar because not only your grandson but your grandson through your mother the altar of his daughter and it's explained um atlanta or actually short that length in the hyoim yoim um of the rather so so over there in this clinic this course of the summer tedic he brings the the uh the insight and the teaching of the market of mesrich uh on this verse and this the market has a uh inside this verse in his classical works called ur torah and he explains over there as follows so again the verse says dwelling place so the maggot says that when it says oil what does oil mean a tent it means a temporary abode and like he brings the verse where it says in the prophet um where hashem says i was just going with you like in a temporary abode in a tent so that the market explains oil is referring to a temporary abode it says referring to a permanent dwelling place because mishkan comes in the word of the i'm going to dwell amongst you and you dwell in a in a in a permanent way so that's what that somehow said it brings to the magnus rich that oil is referring to a um a uh a short-term transient transient place on the other hand nishka is referring to a permanent place and based on this he explains why it says it says which is transient he uses who he used the name for yaakov and on the other hand when it says the the term of mishkanesaka where it's dwelling in a permanent ways use the the name israel why is that because we know it's brought down the zoya the zoya says there's from two two words the letter ud and then ache of the heel what what does a heel mean it's referring to the heel so in other words it's not the main part of the human being so you see when it talks at oil transient use what's part of the person to heal which is not the mainstay of the person however when it says uh when it says what name does it use you use the you the name you throw and like the zoya says what does israel mean israel comes from two words lead to me rushes ahead in other words referring to idea of a head not only ahead but li to me is a head what does it mean what does it mean to me is i had the head of hashem so you see that yaakov is referring to the temporary part of heel that's why that's why he says oil and israel is referring to the head the head of hashem and that's what's connected to the idea of another so you see it's literally polar opposites and one and there's no one comparison on one hand you're dealing with the heel of yaakov the heel of a human being and the other hand is referring to what you see the head the head of hashem and that's why it says what it says but something which is temporaries versus but yaakov of a human being on the other hand which is temporary on the other hand when it refers to as the israel referring to hashem himself now in both these these two levels whether it's yakuza whether it's the transient part of yaakov the hills referring to the fact that we're connected to the head of hashem on both of them he says how good it is in other words both of them are good and aliyah says ma toi was says there's a lot of a lot of kabbalistic insights tomorrow that mine's one of the names of hashem it's referring to humility etc some both nate both levels the highest level leroyce which is permanent the lowest level which is transient yaakov he says which is again with all the powerful insights of ma which is humility and hashem's name and also tell you that it's good and the alt and that someone said that explains an era torah that this this is the difference between when a person establishes time to learn torah or somebody that's really a preoccupied with business so in other words someone's pre-activated business you sit down to learn torah so you sit down at night you're exhausted before you start your day of work but you're not doing it in a permanent way so he's just that's the connection of referring to on a spiritual level someone sits down to learn torah and it's not his main occupation and then he says down then there's a learning toy of someone that's dedicated to learning terrorists someone that says life is about learning torah and that's the level of what you swirl in the way of permanence so that's what the that's what the writer brings from that who explains this beautiful insight based on a teaching of the market of message then whoever goes on to say in each other's followers afterwards the timothy writes that the intent of the civic discourse of montoya of the altar is not so and he gives a whole different insight and he sounds like this he explains that the the the instantly the explanation and the verse the author explains the difference between yaakov israel based on what it says another verse in the torah what is the other verse in the terrorists the other verse in the torah says like this we are sis ism you should make curtains made out of of uh out of goats the oil for a covering aloe mishkan so you see it says over there in that in that verse um you're making an oil which is which is uh a covering ala on the dwelling place so he explains like this that there's two types of coverings of the mishkan there was the mishkan itself and then there's the urease that covered it so we just learned in this verse this is the urea the the covering which is with the the goat from from goats here and then there's the covering which is made out of mozzarella like like the torah says uh uh a um twine linen so so the scheisse mozzar the linen is referring to the michigan itself and urea isn't the goat that's referring to the idea of oil so again to recap what the optimus is saying on the terry that some of her explains that he's the idea of oil mishkan he's bringing from a different verse where you see oil is referring to the to the to the goats here and then the mishkan's referring to what um the linen and he explains like this this is the difference in other words the the covering of the mishkan which is made out of linen how many coverings were there if there was ten however when it came to the goats here the oil there was actually 11. so you see again there's the oil and the mishkan one is the goat and one is the linen but more importantly the oil is actually 11 and the mishkan was 10. what's the difference the archer explains like this and he says as follows the number 11 is referring to our spiritual work of transforming the world and the hebrew is called avoid this to transform the sparks in the world but what type of sparks the sparks of kripat noiga which we know for example there's something there's three levels for this conversation as many one levels holding which is called the holy torah amidst the holy things then you have on the other extreme the three impure holiness three in pure klippot the opposite of holiness and then you have cleveland that's neutral so the the altar explains that the number 11 is referring to the transformation of creepers now you get the neutral things take for example simple example you have food kosher food if it's non-kosher that's and if it's really really uh something which you know to eat it it goes into the category of three empirically both but let's say you have something which is kosher now till you eat it it's neutral if you make a blessing you have the right attention your intentions you elevated it out of clippers you don't make a blessing you don't have the right intentions you can actually downgrade it but back to the point the point is that eleven is referring to the transformation of klipas noiga why is that because there's something which is called in kabbalah 11 crowns of clipper and there's 10 sides there's 10 crowns of creeper esser kissing the master there's 10 10 crowns of cleve of creeper and then there's a uh um a in the cabala it's called a lavoina something white which covers over it so you have 10 in pure clippo you have one that covers over it which is that makes that makes is basically 11. and that's connected to the what's the number 11 we just learned is referring to the goats here now why is goats connected to uh the the number 11 which is important because gold spiritually is referring to darkness and the german brings the famous story in the town of the talmud says like this how come when you see a goat walking and you see the sheep behind it so how come the goat comes first and then the sheep go behind it and so and the talmud says very simple because when hashem created the world so first it was dark and then it was light so and a goat is usually dark and the sheep are are white so therefore the goat comes first and the sheep go after it so you see clearly in the talmud that the goat is connected to darkness and that's why the gold is connected to the idea of leaven so again so urea sees him is referring to what the goats which connects to the eleven and which is completely something that we have to transform now how do we so we have to transform it we have work to do who transforms it and how do we transform it so we transform it through the idea of yaakov the spiritual level of yaakov which goes down to transform it so in order to recap what the altar was explaining is um oil is referring to what the oil the the it was beautiful the oil that the covering on top of the mishkan which is made out of goat which is referring to 11 11 um uh clip of something that we have to transform who transforms the yakko transformer that's what he says however when it comes to the urease the coverings of the mishkan which we said that's which was connected idea of shay smash or linen how many one to attend what's the idea of ten ten ten holy spirits conducive holiness and the way instant revealed way and like like we learned in like we learned in the second vote and it happens in when derby was uh giving this course that was the one that they learned that week but it says it says empirically about that with ten other wins so there's something created the world now so you see again that 10 is connected to the holiness trying to create the world with 10 utterances now the fact is hashem created the world of 10. so the world is full of 10 powerful elements but the fact unfortunately the world world we know comes from the in hebrew it's called oil and it's the same letters as hellm concealment so because we're living in a world where some where there's concealment so you have to actually prove that hashem created the world but the practice of did create the world you need faith etc but that's the power of mishka noise that means mishka naisaka means that dwelling that we reveal in the world the mishkan that's really a dwelling place for hashem of tensors and this is actually higher than transforming and that's why it's level of israel so let's recap whatever's explaining with this the alters are saying a whole different insight a beautiful insight into why it says is referring to the transformation we have to do in the world the 11 the goat et cetera and that gets done through yaakov on the other hand mishkan sakha is referring to the ten holy the ten holy elements in the world the creation of hashem and what's our job israel to reveal the holiness of hashem in this world now what does that mean practically you ever said we know that we learn this it's all about you know it's deep stuff kabbalah stuff we all have the zoa and the 10 and the 11 etc but you have to explain it in the keyboard it's called or in kabbalistic language while voyager saw them how was this going to help us in serving hashem ultimately we had to serve hashem so the altar brings in the tournament he says this is the difference practically between learning torah and doing mitzvos why because torah when you learn torah it's like the mishkan the dwelling place which is permanent which is which is solid and bringing light into the world which is dealing with holiness why because when you learn torah god's revealed sit down to learn torah you see god in godliness and like it says like teach us based on the verse in the prophets that say hello the words of hashem like fire in other words we know the words of hashem torah is like fire and the fact is the the torah does not does not is not susceptible to any impurity you know now it's not it can't even become impure because it looks like fire is fire no fire consumes everything else terror consumes everything else and not only terror in general but even when a person sits and learns torah when you're learning torah you cannot become impure by by the learning of the torah so those so you see that what what's torah terror is powerful terrorism terrorist fire terrorist godliness revealed in the world however when it comes to mitzvahs where is mitchell is given you don't do michelle's in the spiritual world you do mentally in the physical world whether it's keeping kosher it's just food and it's filling so you need you need to hide from an animal messages and so on so mitchells are given in the physical world why was it given into the physical world because our job is to transform the world and therefore torah's main avoidance we are in the intellect and the intake in our head however mitch's voices wear more in the world of action and that's why it says why is that because they have the the spiritual work of doing mitzvahs which is in the world oi hell which is a temporary place that happens through yaakov and we learned during yurikev you know he deals with the heel of the world action is the heel which is connected to action on the other hand the spiritual service of learning toyota would just connect to mishka and drawing down guardians in the world that's in the level israel lee royce so you see beautifully the rubber explains another insight practically that my toy boy when it's referring to going ahead and transforming the world doing the mitzvos what's the idea of yaakov because it's the heel it's the world the physical part of the world israel referring to lee royce the idea of bringing in godliness into this world now after the talmud said it brings this beautiful insight of the altar on the qut the torah he writes it's a powerful and he says like this it's possible to say this is what this is a this is the ex this is the reason why an oil a tent is called a temporary a boat and a mishkan is called a permanent abode why because we know it says it's a it says in the talmud a person should uh do your work should be alright that's not this should not be your main thing and what should be your real real involvement in the world torah so you see mishkon which is connected to drinking a dwelling place for michelle like we learned this terry run that's what he says toyota should be your main mainstay versus versus um uh doing mitt's voice which is in the physical world so that is not that is not the mainstay and that's why i said that's why it's that that's why that's the connection idea of a temporary place another was going to explain it like this he's gonna explain even further and even deeper and trying to combine the two different insights and it says like this generally speaking the situation of a temporary abode for the jewish people when is that where is that that's referring to when we are in exile when we are in exile hashem is not revealed in the fullest um the shrine of zangalas we're in gullahs that is a temporary abode why is that because gullus exile it's not the place for a jewish person a jewish person wants to be in a place where hashem is revealed like for example it says in the talmud that the jewish people in the time of exile we are compared to children that were exiled from their father's table every child belongs to be on the table with his parents by the table and when a child is not sitting by his parents table let's exile for the child but nevertheless even in exile we're still considered hashem's children so so it's this is not our place our place is to be on hashem's table and that's why he says in the talmud woe to our to the children that have been exiled from the from the table of hashem so in other words golos is not our this is not our home galas is an oil godless is on a temporary boat and that's why it says mattoivu how good oya the temporary vote of yaakov what does that mean because even though we're in gulas oil we're in gullahs and we're not where we belong we're in a temporary place here even though nevertheless even though we are in golis versus why if we're not with hashem how's it how's it good it was a temporary abode and explains beautifully because in be causing god what are we doing gulliver's we're not out to lunch but nevertheless we're busy with yaakov we make a dear veterinarian we do mitch voice so we're busy making a dwelling place for shun down here so basically he explains beautifully what does it mean on one hand it's a temporary abode but on the other hand i told you how good how good is it had become good because we do mitzvos and by doing a missile you make a dwelling place for our shrimp down here and when you make a dwelling from down here so you took a place that was a temporary place and you established it as a permanent home for hashem and never goes in a step further he says there's something very very powerful the attempt the intent is not that the whole gullis the whole exile is a preparation or it's going to be like a mashiach comes yeah true we're looking forward to mashiach coming but it's not that this is a preparation for the future but literally as we do our spiritual work in golos we make a dwelling place for hashem right here right now powerful revolutionary idea whatever saying is true it doesn't take away from little we all look for the mashiach to come and it's going to be amazing but the pointer was saying is even though we're in galas it's not our home but as we every time we do a mitzvah and we make a deal with him what we're have what we're doing right now is we are making now a dwelling place for hashem we are making it a permanent home for hashem right now like like the rubber br like like they're bringing something with what's brought down in tanya the outdoor explains and he says as follows what's the whole idea of a mitzvah when you do a mitzvah and the 613 of them 248 positive 369 negative mitzvah is all about saf it's all about creating a connection because what kind of connection because through a mitzvah the person doing the mitzvah we connect with hashem the one that gave us the mitzvah and when we do it so we're connecting to hashem so we're making a dwelling place for hashem down here and based on this he explains very something very beautiful he says as follows this is also an explanation of a dearest array a temporary abode and a dearest kva a permanent abode in other words seemingly if it's a if it's a temporary abode it should only be called an oil a temporary boat and a permanent place should be called the house but the fact is river says because he wants to bring out on the country that even in a temporary abode like gullus even over there we can make a full-time presence for hashem by doing what do we take time it's not a contradiction even in a dearest array of this world where it's a temporary vote we could make a full dwelling place for hashem in this world and the same thing also applies about making a permanent place in the in the tent why because the fact is the mishkan was also with oil was also a temporary place but nevertheless the mishkan was temporary it was transient but nevertheless what what does washington say about them i'm gonna dwell in there so even though it was a temporary place nevertheless hashem could and will dwell in there now what does that mean practically so deborah explains like this and again i'll say the words again in hebrew but he does it's all about the way we are all about how it helps us connect and and serve ourselves better what is the general purpose of us serving hashem knows why we here so we have a job description the general purpose of us serving hashem what's our job description what's our to-do list is to go ahead and transform and elevate the sparks of this gullus of this world that's what we're here for we are here for one reason one reason only to transform this world and make it a dwelling place for hashem in hebrew it's called avoid this room to elevate the sparks that are here and this world should see what one thing and one thing only that hashem runs the show now why is that and they were explaining this when hashem created the world initially it was created complete and that's why if you look in the torah in the beginning of genesis that says ay let toilets be borum this is the offspring of the of the heaven and earth one shrimp created so turtle days could be written with one verb or two vowels and it's written with two vowels it's called it's called molly it's full why because the fault the world that's like toilet is if it's full the world was create complete the world was complete because in the world the only thing that would originally hashem created the world the only thing that existed in the world was holiness or things that served holiness when hashem created the world the world was holy or things that served holiness up to the point never brings a beautiful peace from the talmud the talmud says like this you know the famous the primordial sin with the snake so it's called the nakashak the primordial snake so it says in the talmud the beautiful story that um when it was sitting in heaven so they were serving um adam and nakhash who he was one of the servants up there and he got jealous but what do you see from the point of the story of the talmud that this that made all the trouble in the primordial sin he originally was holy jealousy kicked in fine i get it but originally the snake wasn't bad the naked snake was holy as well but what happened after after the sin the famous sin so he had he was downgraded from his high level and unfortunately it became part of the uh energy of lumas from the other side from creep etc and we have to elevate it but the point is that shema originally created the world 100 and complete unfortunately because of the sin our job is to transform the world and elevate the sparks so who does that that's like we learned before already there's a spiritual work of yaakov and we already learned the zorya says yaakov is made up of you and acheth yudhu ache of the heel and knows you have to get involved in the heel in the physical part of the world and to make it in other words the heel becomes a a true owner of of the world of the of the temporary abode we make it a dwelling place for hashem so again so our general avoiding this world is to elevate the world transform the sparks however what's the avoid of israel lee rosh the head the head of hashem in holiness and and generally speaking this is the general difference between our spiritual work during the week in shabbat like doctor explains that land in the territory sounds like this in this parasha during the week you know from from sunday to friday our job is transforming the whole the the law of sparks in the world we have to deal with the physical world and that's why it's called an ayalara a temporary abode because this work of trying to elevate sparks that's not what we're really here for the world is crazy compete we have a job to do but that's it's an all right it's temporary that's they avoided during the week and what's our spiritual service on shabbos our spiritual service and shabbos is is holiness only holiness and we know it says in the talmud that for example we know you sanctify the moon every month etcetera shabbos there's no sanctification of shabbos why because it says hashem made it holy and it stays holy so our buddha and shabbos is with holy things it's kadus why because that's the place of the jewish people the holy the holy people and the same thing also applies on yantam as well what's your yanta is called is also a holy day and like it's brought down the discourse is about yomtif and that's why and that's what yonder is also called shabbos and like we see clearly when it comes to spirituality tells us you should count me much rashabas well i see you see the young titan are connected to the shabbos so you see another beautiful difference between during the week and shabbos during the week our vote is transforming the world yaakov israel dealing with holiness now these two spiritual works of oil the temporary abode and the mishkan the permanent abode which we learned before again is alright temporary and and permanent or the idea of torah which is the permanent emitter to the temporary part so it's connected to what it says in the beginning of the verse how good it is and obviously what does the verb literally mean that the the tense of yaakov and the dwelling place of the jewish people they were there before you know it's not that was the the tents were created yaakov or israel was created it was there before already the verse is saying is not toivou what does he not tell you about how good it is what does it mean good it is both of them what have we because we already learned what there's two different averages here there's dealing with the physical world transforming the world israel learning torah both of those are avoided both spiritual work whether it's learning torah doing mitzvos dealing with the world elevating the world or bringing godly light into the world they're both on the level of ma the one of the names of hashem and also the level of good and not only that evil or even more than ever says that when this is very powerful we learned there's two different avoidances learning torah and doing mitzvos temporary ebola and and the the permanent abode so they're both not taivo but deeper numbers says it doesn't say mata for this one i'll tell you for that one it's just one smart toy but for both of them in other words because one might tolerable how good is for both of them why because both of them and it's very powerful together on the same level and they're both in the level of goods you can say it's more important to learn terry more important to the mixed voice no it says they're both good and they're both on the same level of goodness so they're ever saying is something beautiful and he's saying is that both two different avoiders but they're both good and both equally as good and you ever finished opening sounds like this it should be the will of hashem that we do our spiritual work in all these things that we learned before learning torah doing mitzvos making this world a dwelling place for hashem will come to very very soon to fulfill mishkanai sacha israel that we're going to have the dwelling place of the tory rav hashem itself in this world in a way that's going to be permanent and how's it going to be permanent we're going to have the third base of mcdonald's the third temple which is going to be a permanent dwelling place much greater than the first two basis makers that we had like rashi says clearly based on the verse hashem hashem is going to be the king forever and ever because then we're going to have the bias the basis for english which is going to be everlasting which includes in the everlasting third base of mcdonagh also the first two bases of mikdash like it says in khazal on the verse eilip kudera mishkan this is the the counting of the mishkan and it says twice mishkana ate this twice mishkan in other words that that both basically conditions is is goes in the category of mishkan so we see that when when the third base of mechanics is going to come back and it's going to be revealed what's going to be revealed as also the mishkan which we know is everlasting and it's all going to come back the the third base magnus will have her new and the first and the second and the michigan were going to come back it's going to come back with mashiach to kenu the righteous mashiach is going to come and the driver finishes off him hera via menu mom is going to happen very very soon and very very quickly another beautiful pacific discourse about how great the jewish people are learning torah doing mitzvos they're both important and as we their episodes we as we do it we will make a deal with him and let's hope and pray that we make a real dwelling place for hashem and god willing our next class will be in your have a s and blessed week shabua tov